Something New from the Old Country

"Since it came from Germany, I should have expected to find an example of Germanic thoroughness once I was on board the Vilm 116 on its mooring in Annapolis harbor. Itís beautifully made, and itís invested with the kind of detail usually found only on custom yachts. But along with the many great facets of the boatís design were some features that look like oversights when compared with cruising-boat design as itís practiced on the edges of the great oceans."Story